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MESSAGE FOR WEEK BEGINNING 4th September 2006 'possible'
There will be times when it is not possible for me to write the weekly message. You may ask why I do not write a large number in advance. I prefer not to do this because to some extent I want the message to be triggered by my own experiences at the moment rather than prepared in advance. Some messages will be long and some short.
Children grow up with the idea of right and wrong, true and false, things you can do and things you cannot do. There is no opportunity for them to develop the concept of 'possible'. Maybe their young brains could not hold such a concept. Education re-inforces the basic true/false dischotomy. This is a huge handicap to a thinker. 'Possible' is a much more importent part of thinking than we have ever acknowledged. This goes beyond hypothesis which is just one form of the possible.
Edward de Bono |